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The Devils Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) is a critically endangered species of the family Cyprinodontidae (pupfishes) found only in Devils Hole, a water-filled cavern in the US state of Nevada. It was first described as a species in 1930 and is most closely related to C. nevadensis and the Death Valley pupfish ( C. salinus ).
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Devils Hole pupfish, Cyprinodon diabolis, from Death Valley National Park. Devils Hole is the only natural habitat of the Devils Hole pupfish, which survives despite the hot, oxygen-poor water. [19] Devils Hole "may be the smallest habitat in the world containing the entire population of a vertebrate species". [4]
The Devils Hole pupfish reached a 25-year high spring count of 191 fish. For years, the fish’s population dwindled, hitting an “all-time low of 35 in 2013,” the National Park Service said in ...
Several pupfish species are extinct and most extant species are listed. In the U.S., the most well-known pupfish species may be the Devils Hole pupfish, native to Devils Hole on the Nevada side of Death Valley National Park. Since 1995 the Devils Hole pupfish has been in a nearly steady decline, where it was close to extinction at 35–68 fish ...
The word killifish is of uncertain origin, but is likely to have come from the Dutch kil for a kill (small stream). [4] Although killifish is sometimes used as an English equivalent to the taxonomical term Cyprinodontidae, this is only one of several families that are referred to as Killifish. Cyprinodontidae more specifically refers to the ...
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English: Two male specimen of the Devils Hole Pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) photographed in the Devil's Hole, Nevada Deutsch: Teufelskärpfling ( Cyprinodon diabolis ), männlicher Spezimen Svenska: Två hannar av Cyprinodon diabolis , en utrotningshotad art av äggläggande tandkarp som förekommer i Nevada